09.15.12

An editorial by Kirsten Powers, of Fox News, correctly points out that once again, the Obama administration would rather blame everyone else, except the terrorist who successfully hide within Islam, for the attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world. His normal nature is to blame people exercising their freedom of speech, instead of placing blame where it clearly lies; Islam.
For those who still have questions about it, Islam is anything but a religion of peace. In these days of “bully awareness”, Islam should be at the top of the list. When one disagrees with them, or says disparaging things against it’s “prophet”, they immediately begin to threaten, bully and eventually kill and maim innocent people who typically have nothing to do with the so-called “spark” which ignited their violence. We, at this very blog, have been on the receiving end of these threats, so we know the Islamic “modus operandi” all to well. We were threatened for material we linked to and were not even the original authors. This is the way of Islam.

“Disgusting and reprehensible.” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Truly abhorrent,” an outraged White House official told an international conference. Were they talking about the murder of four Americans in Libya? Or perhaps the hoisting of an Islamist flag over the U.S. Embassy in Cairo?

No. For that they stuck to diplomatic speak. For the president, the harshest language was: “I strongly condemn the outrageous attack.” For Clinton it was that the US is heartbroken and she condemned “this senseless act of violence.” But “disgusting and reprehensible” and “truly abhorrent ” were reserved for an amateurish and silly film by someone nobody has ever heard of.

In fact, what is “disgusting and reprehensible” is that there are people in the world who think they are justified in attacking and killing people because someone hurt their feelings or offended their sensibilities. The US government should not act as a validator or enabler of this upside down worldview, which is exactly what the Obama administration has done repeatedly as they have responded to these abhorrent attacks against the United States.

I have defended the Obama administration against the complaints from the right that they have run an “apology tour” in the Middle East because I believe the US should admit when we make mistakes, such as the accidental burning of Korans. But what we shouldn’t do is affirm the wrongheaded view that people should be protected from the free speech of others.

Worse, our leaders shouldn’t let our enemies know that when they kill our people and attack our embassies that the US Government will act like a battered wife making excuses for her psychotic husband. Wake up: we weren’t attacked because of a movie made by an American. We were attacked because there are crazy religious fanatics who hate the United States. We didn’t ask for it.

Egypt’s President Morsi reportedly asked Obama “to put an end to such behavior”—presumably freedom, constitutional rights and the like — as it led to the making of, in his eyes, the offensive movie.

Obama has no legal recourse but our president seems to be acquiescing to Morsi’s request by trying to silence the movie-maker through verbal intimidation, including a call from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Dempsey who asked Pastor Terry Jones to withdraw his support for the film. Additionally, The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the FBI was dispatched to Hollywood to uncover the identity of the filmmaker. (Don’t they have real terrorists to catch? I’ll be looking for the administration’s condemnations next for the selling of the DVD of “The Da Vinci Code,” the blockbuster American movie that claims Jesus had sex with Mary Magdalene.)

Team Obama’s unseemly groveling to violent extremists has been cloaked in a newfound concern on the left for respecting religious sensibilities. Tuesday, a liberal professor argued in USA Today that the maker of the Mohammed film should be arrested.

President Obama said in the Rose Garden: “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others” and Clinton asserted that, “The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.” Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough endorsed efforts to create “a world where the dignity of all people—and all faiths—is respected.”

Apparently our foreign policy is now being run by Dr. Phil. Someone needs to explain to the White House that our Constitution protects freedom of religion from government interference, not the protection from people who say mean, critical or offensive things about one’s religion.

09.13.12

I ran across a Fox News article that gave some chilling details to the attack on the Libyan Consulate that left the our ambassador to Libya and three others dead.
Prior to the attack, one of the men killed, Sean Smith, a foreign service information management officer, was chatting in an internet online gaming forum. According to sources in the forum, Smith made the comment “Assuming we don’t die tonight…We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”
What people in our country can’t seem to understand is that a Muslim is always a Muslim first. Everything else; parenthood, family, patriotism, job; are secondary to being a Muslim.
In this case, we see the religion of “hate and destruction” aka Islam, inflamed yet again, over a petty and insignificant reason, to the point killing and destroying unrelated people and property.
We see a “police officer”, tasked with guarding our people, involved with helping the attackers.
Some might say that a police officer taking pictures is meaningless. These people are fools and have absolutely no understanding of Islam, the Middle East or the history of this violent religion.